John F.W. Rogers' Opening Remarks at the ICAA's Enduring Places Conference in Charleston

In November 2023, the ICAA hosted the national conference Enduring Places. For three days, 225 participants from around the country gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and engaged in a robust program of talks, panel discussions, working sessions, and tours focused on three themes: craftsmanship, preservation, and sustainability.

John F.W. Rogers, executive vice president of Goldman Sachs and chairman of the White House Historical Association, as well as the generous benefactor of Enduring Places, welcomed attendees with an inspiring set of opening remarks that emphasized the ICAA's mission to promote the practice and appreciation of classical design in architecture and its allied arts.

From April to June 2024, the ICAA will be releasing all of the recordings from Enduring Places. Part I and Part II are available now. Sign up for the ICAA's biweekly newsletter, World of Classicism, to be notified when other installments are released in the coming weeks.

John Rogers serves as Executive Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Directors at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Rogers is a member of the Management Committee, the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee and Co-Chair of the Regulatory Reform Steering Group. He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE, Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and Goldman Sachs Gives. Mr. Rogers joined Goldman Sachs in 1994. He was named Managing Director in 1997 and Partner in 2000.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Rogers was a Senior Fellow at the Baker Institute at Rice University. He spent a number of years in government service, most recently as an Under Secretary of the United States Department of State. He was also Executive Vice president of the Oliver Carr Company. Earlier, Mr. Rogers served as an Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department and as an Assistant to the President of the United States at the White House. In 1985, he received the Presidential Citizen Medal.

Mr. Rogers is Chairman of the Board of the Atlantic Council and the White House Historical Association. He is also a life trustee of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and a trustee of the board of the American Academy in Rome. In addition, he is a member and served twice as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. He is Chairman Emeritus of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsors

The ICAA is very grateful to John F.W. Rogers for generously making this program possible along with our supporters:

Classical American Homes Preservation Trust

Historic Charleston Foundation

Oliveri Millworks

Traditional Building

Schafer Buccellato Architects

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS

A Classical Studio, Inc.

Benedictine College

Gaston & Wyatt

Goodwin Classic Homes

Jared Goss

Historical Concepts

ICAA Northern California Chapter

Leeds Custom Design and Seabreeze Building

Anne Kriken Mann

John B. Murray & Elizabeth Brooke Murray

Poggenpohl

Reis Contracting

Skurman Architects

Peter J. Talty

Tucker & Marks

The Urban Electric Co.

Vallette & Russell Windham

LECTURE SPONSORS

Ankie & Fran Barnes

Stan Dixon

Marsha & David Dowler

Barbara Eberlein

Kirk Henckels

Jeff Allen Landscape Architecture, LLC

Anne Lazar

Marmi Stone

Suzanne R. Santry

Tammy Connor Interior Design

Urban Design Associates

Whitlock Builders

Bunny Williams

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Russell Windham, Chair

Ankie Barnes

Andrew Cogar

Richard Economakis

Ray Gindroz

Alexa Hampton

Thomas Lloyd

Michael Mesko

Eric Osth

Suzanne Santry

IN COLLABORATION WITH ICAA NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF

Peter Lyden, President

Caroline Slaten, Vice President, Development

Julia Sucher, Manager, Development & Special Events

Lexi Hoglund, Assistant, Development and Office of the President

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